What is "covenanters"

Usage examples of "covenanters".

Edinburgh, not for the first time, and sent Covenanters in hot pursuit.

They might be Covenanters coming for me, to hang me like they did Montrose.

How had he escaped the Covenanters that Baen himself had set upon him?

Gerek waited until his party were out of sight of the castle, then headed in the opposite direction of Killearnan, hoping to get out of MacFarr country before the man, or any Covenanters he might send, came after them.

The Covenanters took off in the direction of those who had gone over the back fence.

He knew the black could outrun Covenanters, and most of his own band, but he refused to leave any of his men behind.

He was damned if he was going to get caught here by Covenanters who might be roaming the area.

If those horses indicated Covenanters were after him, he needed to let her go for her own safety.

Baen left for Killearnan to secure more men, Covenanters appeared in the glen.

Argyll, representing the Covenanters, and also in pursuance of a private feud, in 1639, or 1640.

Some regarded it as an act of espial, and much foolish talk arose about the covenanters and persecution and martyrdom.

She had become noticeably withdrawn and pre occupied with her thoughts, spending less time at Court, which had become dispersed anyway since the King had left for Scotland to attempt to win the Covenanters to his side.

And so what, then, is the outstanding difference between the message of Christ Jesus and that of the nearby Covenanters of Qumran?

It would seem to me to be this: that the Covenanters were thinking of themselves as about to engage in battle as the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness, their posture, that is to say, being of preparation for war, whereas the gospel of Jesus was, rather, of the battle already resolved.

Armed Roundheads and Scotch Covenanters combined prayer with sword exercise.